Disgruntled aspirants ransack room of BMA election chief
A group of Swadhinata Chikitshak Parishad members yesterday ransacked the room of Prof PC Babla at Mymensingh Medical College (MMC).
They attacked the room of Dr Babla, head of election commission to Bangladesh Medical Association (BMA) election at MMC allegedly after failing to get nominations.
The agitated doctors damaged the windowpanes and notice board of the room and scrapped the voters' list hung in front of the room. They also ransacked some furniture kept before the room, witnesses said.
Earlier, a group of doctors, who failed to get nomination rejected the panel for November 29 election and snatched nomination withdrawal forms from some candidates on November 11, the last day for withdrawal of candidature, sources said.
After the untoward incident, the election commission, headed by Prof PC Babla, postponed the election.
At least 200 candidates from different groups of Swadhinata Chikitshak Parishad filed nomination papers to contest the election to 23-member Mymensingh BMA unit.
As it was difficult to nominate candidates for all 23 posts from the parishad, central leaders on Saturday held a meeting with Captain (retd) Mujibur Rahman Fakir, MP, at his residence in the capital.
The meeting finalised a panel but the rival members of the parishad here rejected the panel, sources added.
As the doctors of a faction who got nominations along with their supporters were preparing to join the election on the scheduled date, the doctors belonging to other faction of the parisahd started to press for fresh schedule with fresh candidates from their side, they said.
Today the panel is likely to be introduced at a function at MMC auditorium in presence of the central leaders of the parishad.
The vested quarters may foil the programme and yesterday's incident is related to it, said a parishad leader, expressing fear.
Contacted, MMC principal Dr. Motiur Rahman, however, said the air of grievances centering the BMA election has already been minimised through a meeting at MMC yesterday afternoon.
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